DeclareDesign: A Tidyverse-First Research Design Declaration and Diagnosis Tool

Declares, simulates, diagnoses and redesigns research designs. A design is declared as a model, an inquiry, a data strategy and an answer strategy, then simulated with 'purrr' and diagnosed with 'dplyr'. Version 2.0 is a ground-up rewrite of the package on tidyverse conventions.

Version: 2.0.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0), randomizr (≥ 1.0.1), fabricatr (≥ 2.0.0), estimatr (≥ 2.0.0)
Imports: broom, dplyr, generics, parallel, purrr, rlang, tibble, tidyr, utils
Suggests: furrr, future, knitr, MASS, progressr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), withr
Published: 2026-10-25
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.DeclareDesign
Author: Alexander Coppock ORCID iD [aut, cre], Graeme Blair ORCID iD [aut], Jasper Cooper ORCID iD [aut], Macartan Humphreys ORCID iD [aut], Neal Fultz [aut]
Maintainer: Alexander Coppock <acoppock at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/DeclareDesign/DeclareDesign/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://declaredesign.org/r/declaredesign/, https://github.com/DeclareDesign/DeclareDesign
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: DeclareDesign citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: DeclareDesign results

Documentation:

Reference manual: DeclareDesign.html , DeclareDesign.pdf
Vignettes: DeclareDesign 2.0: what changes, what does not, and why (source, R code)
Getting started (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: DeclareDesign_2.0.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: DeclareDesign_1.1.1.zip, r-release: DeclareDesign_1.1.1.zip, r-oldrel: DeclareDesign_2.0.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): DeclareDesign_2.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): DeclareDesign_2.0.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): DeclareDesign_2.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): DeclareDesign_2.0.0.tgz
Old sources: DeclareDesign archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse depends: DesignLibrary
Reverse suggests: CausalQueries, estimatr, marginaleffects, ordbetareg, randomizr, rdss

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